In a 2009
interview with the long-time CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, who when
asked about all the different ways his company is causing invasions
of privacy ... said “If you're doing something that you don't
want other people to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the
first place.”

There's all
kinds of things to say about that mentality. The first of which is
that the people who say that -- who say that privacy isn't really
important -- don't actually believe it. And the way you know that
they don't actually believe it is that while they say with their
words that privacy doesn't matter, with their actions they take all
kinds of steps to safeguard their privacy.

They put
passwords on their email and social media accounts. They put locks on
their bedroom and bathroom doors. All steps designed to prevent other
people from entering what they consider their private realm and
knowing what it is that they don't want other people to know.

The very
same Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, ordered his employees at Google
to cease speaking with the online internet magazine Cnet after Cnet
published an article full of personal private information about Eric
Schmidt which it obtained exclusively through Google searches and
using other Google products.

This same
division can be seen with the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who
in an infamous interview in 2010 pronounced that privacy is no longer
a “social norm”.

Last year
Mark Zuckerberg and his new wife purchased not only their own house,
but also all four adjacent houses in Palo Alto for a total of $30
million in order to ensure that they enjoyed a zone of privacy that
prevented other people from monitoring what they do in their personal
lives.